With our particular setup of school labs. 2-3 out of 30 stations would always fail - the display manager would not start.
On the kernel i turned removed: splash & quiet and noticed that the events proceeding starting lightdm were quite a bit shorter for the failed machines. When I turned on more debugging features, all the machines boot-up fine with no errors! So my hack/solution: * kernel boot options remove: splash quiet * kernel boot options add: verbose init=/sbin/init --verbose * /etc/default/rcS VERBOSE=yes My guess is that dumping the verbose text out to the screen creates just enough delay to fix the race condition. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969489 Title: lightdm tries (and fails) to start too early? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/969489/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs